The Feasibility of the Molten Salt Storage Technology
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energy, molten salt technology, concentrated solar power.Abstract
Nowadays, the situation of the energy consumption is quite serious for many reasons. One of the significant contributors is the utilization of some traditional energy generating and storing systems, making the advancement of the technologies fairly important for human. Consequently, this paper focuses on a green energy storage system called molten salt storage system for sustainability development of humans. This paper mainly discusses the current situation of energy consumption. A collaborate illustration of molten salt storage in the industry is show, and a concentrated solar power station which uses molten salt storage in US is displayed. Advantages are explained in three aspects including chemistry aspect, economic aspect, and environment aspect. The paper uses the comparison of some properties of different compounds to highlight the advantages of molten salts. Furthermore, the paper uses some methodologies like Leveled Cost of Energy, and Life Cycle Assessment of different stages of the molten salt storage system to show its influence to the environment. Last but not least, the disadvantages and its further improvement is illustrated. After analyzing the both sides of this technology and the possible future improvement, the conclusion comes out that it is still feasible to use the molten salt storage system despite of some flaws required to be improved.
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